Jest 26 Released: The Popular Testing Framework — Jest is a popular testing framework that works with pretty much everything. This release focuses on getting the dependency count and install size down (this causes some breaking changes, unsurprisingly), adds a new fake timer implementation, drops Node 8 support, and initial, experimental ESM support to play with.

Comparing Ember Octane and React — This is about as detailed a comparison as you could hope for and a demonstration of just how much Ember contributes to the JavaScript ecosystem. Octane really kicks things up a notch for Ember, too.

Carrying on from the Deno item above, yes, we've started Deno Weekly, a new newsletter dedicated to the newest runtime in the JavaScript/TypeScript world. Issue 2 goes out just after 1.0 is released next week.

Even if you don't stick with Deno long term, feel free to subscribe then unsubscribe at any time — we won't take offence 😄

Building a Crossword Puzzle Generator — As a NY Times crossword addict, I love a good crossword, but if you’d rather figure out how to make your computer solve them, be my guest 😄 This post guides you on how to approach the problem.

🎉 BTW, if you like videos, we need to shout out Florin Pop's YouTube channel as he's just passed 20k subscribers by posting neat JavaScript videos and live streams nearly every day for the past six months! 😁 Lots of great stuff on there for JavaScript developers of all skill levels.